The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-04-16

G. c. Hanna as principal of the Towsontown pub
lie school next Monday, has for some time yer,
successfully conducted tho school at Ashland
where he is highly thought of by the people. Mr.
| Wright is a son in-law Of Mr.. S. W. Upton, o
Shawan, Sth district.
-Belair, like Towsontown, is in need of
pure water supply and the newspapers of tina
town are beginning to agitate the subject They
not only need it because their present supply i
becoming contaminated by reason of the growing
population, but they also need it for prope
protection in case of fire.
| The Trustees of Chestnut Grove Presby
! terrain Church near Sweet Air, give notice else
! where in The UNION that meeting of the lo
holders and others interested, will be held at thu
| church, on Saturday, April %, 1887, at O'Clock
p. The object of the meeting is to devise means
| for enclosing the cemetery.
Bradshaw on the new B. & O. extension
in the 1lth district of this county, is one of thu
| best stations on that line. Col. B. F. Taylor
upon whose farm it is located, has built himself
snug dwelling and store at the station and is now
carrying on aourishing business. 1t is destined
| to be one of the best points on the road.
The game of ball at Oriole Park, York
| road, Monday, between the Baltimores and
| Bostons, attracted crowd of about 5000 people
among whom were good many toughs. There
were several fights among this class and three OF
four arrests. The park was so full of people that
-Belair was one hundred years old on the
| 4th of April. Referring to this fact the Kgis
says "the act of the Legislature, cutting off from
Baltimore county new county to be called Har-
ford, was passed at the December session of the
Legislature, 1873, but it nearly fourteen years
afterwards before the seat of justice was finally
established"
The Inter-S State Commerce law has not in.
creased the passenger rate on the Western Mary
land railroad and the people who use that popu-
lar line are entirely satisfied with the present
prices. This road does an immense passenger
business, particularly in the summer, and the
liberality Of its management viii serve to still
further increase this traffic.
-Easter Sunday was an unusually warm day
for the season, the during the greater part of
il having been oppressively hot, but the churches
we're ali largely attended and the services were
interesting and impressive. Trinity Church, Tow
sontOwn, was handsomely decorated with flowers,
and the special services for the children OF the
Sunday school, held in the afternoon, attracted a
large audience.
in a letter from c. W. Chancellor, NJ. D.,
Of Maryland, written in Paris, March 10th, and
published in the Maryland Medical Journal, he
compliments Dr. J. Piper, president Of the State
Board Of Health, very highly on his report on the
drinking water Of the towns and villages Of Mary
land and makes a comparison Of his views and
those Of an eminent French physician on the sub
ject Of impure drinking water and its relation TO
typhoid and other fevers.
a gentleman who lives on the line Of the
Maryland Central road and does business in the
city says that before the advanced rates went in
10 effect II cost him for himself and family about
$3.50 year for railroad fares, and he did not OBJ
ject because the fare was reasonable. Since the
advance be says that his family will do very little
ear riding and that he intends buying another
horse and driving back and forth, remaining in
the city over night when the weather is bad.
This is only one example Of what high fares will
do and there are doubtless many others.
Mr.. Charles F. Pitt, Sr., whose handsome
country seat is located on the Joppa road, near
Sherwood, died at his city residence, on Friday
night of last week. in his 10th year. Mr.. Pitt was
one of the oldest and most highly esteemed mer-
chants Of Baltimore and was senior member of
the firm of Chas. F. Pitt & Sons, extensive i'm
porters of chemicals. He had not been actively
engaged in business for some years. Mr.. Pitt
was a highly educated, genial and charitable gen.
tIeman, and frequently wrote for the press, The
UNION having often published letters from his
pen on scientific religious and charitable subjects.
Our old and esteemed friend ex-Sherif
John X. Harvey, who lately recovered from a
slight attack of pneumonia, called to see us this
week, having entirely regained his usual health.
Mr.. Harvey was Sc years of age last January, and
being still engaged in selling trees and collecting
for the Corse nurseries, travels through Baltimore,
Carroll and Howard counties on horseback, often
riding twenty or more miles on stretch. Mr..
Harvey has been member of the M. E. Church
for more than fifty years and still takes great
interest in everything connected with it. He is a
remarkable old gentleman and it always affords
us pleasure to see him.
The funeral of Mrs. Grason, wife of Hon.
Richard Grason, took place from Trinity P. E.
Church, Towsontown, on Saturday afternoon last.
The rector, Rev. W. II. H. Powers, conducted the
services. The pail bearers, who were selected by
Mrs. Grason some time before her death, were her
two sons, Messrs. William and John Grason, her
two sons-in-law, Mr.. Thos. I. George and DR.. j.
L. Finley her grandson, r. Grason George, and
Mr.. John Ridgely, of Hampton. The interment
was in Greenmount Cemetery. Mr.. Chas. Sterett
Grasou, of Kennedy, Minnesota, who was here
about two weeks before his mother died, was una
bic to get home in time for the funeral.
Board Of Health, was before the County Commits
sioners this week to urge the Board, in pursuance
of the act of 1886, 70 organize itself into local
board of health. This law makes it obligatory
upon the County Commissioners throughout the
State to organize themselves as local boards of
health, and to appoint intelligent physician to
act as sanitary officer. The Baltimore county
Board has heretofore taken no action under the
law, and DR.. Piper said it was the only similar
Board in the State which had not. He said the
Belt was in deplorable condition, and if the
B0arQ was 10 organize uuuer tno law IL "ouu th0h
have additional power to enforce the abatement
of nuisances, &c. 1t was fact we'll known to the
State Board that ten demands are made upon it by
citizens residing in the Belt to abate nusances to
ono demand from the balance of the State. 1t
was from this section of the county that the coun-
ty sanitary officer should come, and he should be
paid salary sufficiently large to make it an OBJ:
ject for him to attend to his duties Six hundred
dollars per annum, the president of the State Board
| thought, would be sufficient. The garbage force
of that section of the county could be safely placed
under the control and supervision of the sanitary
officer, and supported as he would be by the re,
Gently enlarged powers of the State Board Of
| Health, much needed reform in sanitation would
| in consequence be inaugurated. The board ex-
pressed willingness to act in the matter, but de-
| ferred action until next week.
Politics and PistolS.-Frank O'Neil keeps a
saloon on Oak street, in the Belt, and John
| O'Rourke is engaged in the same business on the
Falls road, near the Boundary. The men belong
to different political factions both being active
Democrats, and there mas been bad blood between
them for some time. About 6 o'clock Monday
afternoon a row occurred near O'Rourke's place
| between f. A. French and Thomas O'Neil, the